Pictures Generation Ephemera

The Pictures Generation takes its name from Pictures, the 1977 exhibition Douglas Crimp organised at Artists Space in New York, and from the Metropolitan Museum's 2009 survey The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984. Its artists, among them Cindy Sherman, Richard Prince, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, Barbara Kruger and Louise Lawler, worked with images taken from film, advertising and the media. The New Rare holds the printed traces of that moment and its long after-life: invitations, catalogues, posters and artists' publications, each catalogued with its own register number and condition.

Read the story behind the name in the Journal: RE:CIRCULATION No. 012, Filed Under Something Else, on how these artists were filed under other headings for thirty years before it.